skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fwiw, when they launched the M3 MacBook they also compared it primarily to the M1 rather than the M2... same reasons.
> Those contributors hate the job, and have basically abandoned Xorg

In fairness to X, Wayland contributors seem to hate their jobs as well.
Thanks - will definitely look at upgrading this part of the chain. It's been a headache.
It’s almost like “any other computer” is not thin as a finger, packed to the brim with features that require miniaturization.

Can you just fix an F1 engine with a wrench?
Any hope for a new iPhone SE? My 1st gen's battery is near dead.
personally I think this is a comparison most people want. The M3 had a lot of compromises over the M2.

that aside, the M4 is about the Neural Engine upgrades over anything (which probably should have been compared to the M3)
> any evidence of their still strong position will be greatly appreciated

Fortran still dominates certain areas of scientific computing / HPC, primarily computational chemistry and CFD. - https://fortran-lang.org/packages/scientific - you don't hear about most of them because they're generally run on HPC centers by scientists in niche fields. But you do get their benefit if you buy things that have the chemical sector in their supply chain.

The common thread is generally historical codes with a lot of matrix math. Fortran has some pretty great syntax for arrays and their operations. And the for-loop parallelization syntax in parallel compilers (like openmp) is also easy to use. The language can even enforce function purity for you, which removes some of the foot guns from parallel code that you get in other languages.

The kinds of problems those packages solve tend to bottleneck at matrix math, so it's not surprising a language that is very ergonomic for vector math found use there.

Same for Matlab, it's mostly used by niche fields and engineers who work on physical objects (chemical, mechanical, etc). Their marketing strategy is to give discounts to universities to encourage classes that use them. Like Fortran, it has good syntax for matrix operations. Plus it has a legitimately strong standard library. Great for students who aren't programmers and who don't want to be programmers. They then only know this language and ask their future employer for a license. If you don't interact with a lot of engineers at many companies, you aren't going to see Matlab.
I'll give you that Apple's comparisons are sometimes inscrutable. I vividly remember that one.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22982915/apple-m1-ultra-r...

Apple was comparing the power envelope (already a complicated concept) of their GPU against a 3090. Apple wanted to show that the peak of their GPU's performance was reached with a fraction of the power of a 3090. What was terrible was that Apple was cropping their chart at the point where the 3090 was pulling ahead in pure compute by throwing more watts at the problem. So their GPU was not as powerful as a 3090, but a quick glance at the chart would completely tell you otherwise.

Ultimately we didn't see one of those charts today, just a mention about the GPU being 50% more efficient than the competition. I think those charts are beloved by Johny Srouji and no one else. They're not getting the message across.
All of which has been common knowledge for network admins 20 years ago. Where did we go wrong?
Ask HN: Reactive and LocalFirst GraphQL Platform?
What is the best platform for achieving offline-first & reactive UI with graphql?

I'm familiar with graphql "subscribe" functionality, but I'm talking about a robust platform to manage connections on a big scale, handling first snapshots, update queues, etc.

I'm looking for something similar to what Tuomas described in his talk about linear sync: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2m3jaJixU

Thanks!
there is a huge difference between owning an apartment and owning a property with your own house.

in an apartment you own the right to live and are responsible for your own maintenance. but if you do not own the building, do you really own the apartment? you are still beholden to the demands of the building owners. you still have to pay for building maintenance. any serious renovation needs permission because it could affect the building structure.

in germany and other countries tenant protection is so strong that as a tenant i have practically the same rights as if i were an owner. the only difference is the form of payment. and with building maintenance fees i would still never reach the point where i am free of monthly payments (ignoring utilities which are always the same for both).

and as an owner i carry a risk that the apartment becomes worthless because it somehow becomes unsellable.

so unless i can get my own ground to build on, why own?

my family has been renting the same apartment in the city of vienna for 150 years now.
any money that we could have saved in rent we would have had to invest into renovations
Until ChatGPT gives you plausible-sounding but completely wrong answer and you have no way to react - you can't explain that it wrong, or downvote, or avoid that poster.

(Well, you can stop using ChatGPT, and that's what I ended up doing. General idea or inspiration? Sure, I can ask it. Specific technical question? Nope, google it is)
Yes, can't remember the precise combo either, there was a solid year or two of latent misunderstandings.

I eventually made a visual showing it was the same as claiming your iPhone was 3x the speed of a Core i9: Sure, if you limit the power draw of your PC to a battery the size of a post it pad.

Similar issues when on-device LLMs happened, thankfully, quieted since then (last egregious thing I saw was stonk-related wishcasting that Apple was obviously turning its Xcode CI service into a full-blown AWS competitor that'd wipe the floor with any cloud service, given the 2x performance)
DHCP is bit like hotel front and key slip. When a laptop connects to a Wi-Fi, it broadcasts DHCPDISCOVER message using the Wi-Fi card's MAC address, to which local DHCP server responds with IP address + option strings, such as subnet mask, gateway IP, local timezone(but not time), local X Window Manager address, network FQDN, and so on. Every consumer Wi-Fi router has DHCP server program included and set to auto configure, and that is how it's normally operated, but technically multiple servers can coexist within the same subnet, and the server computer doesn't have to be itself the default gateway.

Among the options strings that DHCP server may provide is DHCP option 121 Classless Static Routes, added in 2002, that can "push" routing information to clients for convenience. Apparently this option 121 can be abused to trick your laptop into set and prioritize `route add [google.com] via [malicious_host] dev wlan0` over `route add [google.com] via [vpn_right] dev vpn0` which routes traffic to [google.com], or 0.0.0.0/0 for that matter, through [malicious_host].

DHCP is more of a convenience feature for private IP address LANs, not strictly necessary for operating IP LAN. I've heard generations prior to ours sometimes leased clothespins labeled with IPs off the wall to guests, along instruction papers. DHCP completely automates that.
You assume that it is a matter of choice?
> It would need to be tested and properly integrated with x11vnc.

True, although if you already have wayvnc that's like a day of work; AFAICT x11vnc and wayvnc are nearly drop-in replacements.

> As the goal is to move away from X11, it doesn't seem likely that they would invest time into that.

It may be the goal, but is it the present? All the articles I can find about the pi transition to wayland say it's the default for the pi 4 and 5 but not anything else. Which is consistent with

> First of all, Raspberry Pi Connect needs your Raspberry Pi to be running a 64-bit distribution of Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm that uses the Wayland window server. This in turn means that, for now, you’ll need a Raspberry Pi 5, Raspberry Pi 4, or Raspberry Pi 400.

but raises the obvious point that supporting X11 would be helpful to support earlier models. (Along with 32-bit support, which I also am surprised at them not including.)

> Besides, if you have x11, you can still use RealVNC.

And if you use wayland, you could just use wayvnc directly. The whole point is to wrap it up in a nice package and add just enough central server to deal with connectivity.
A Ryzen 7840U in a gaming handheld is not (configured) the same as a Ryzen 7840U in a laptop, for that matter, so Apple is hardly unique here.
(Bi)Temporal Tables, PostgreSQL and SQL Standard
That button is an increasingly expensive component at scale, as it's a separate component to manufacture and build a supply chain for, as well as an additional component to add which can potentially fail.

This is why most carmakers are moving towards touchscreens now as well.

If you want to keep prices roughly comparable to previous SKUs in the midst of trade and supply chain kerfuffles, there has to be cost cutting somewhere.
The curse of Apple Silicon. Everything's basically "fast enough" already.
For instance, in the Netherlands a driver can only drive for 4.5hr before having a 45min mandatory break.

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/werktijden/vraag-en...
Elsewhere in the comments, it is noted Apple's own estimates are identical despite allegedly 2x better hardware.

Aside, 2 hours is very low even for 2010. There's a strongly usability advantage for going to 16. But going from 16 to 128 won't add as much. The natural course of things is to converge on a decent enough number and 'spend' the rest on more complex software, a lighter laptop etc.
Yes, totally agree. I tried gzip first, but it introduce about 10~20 bytes cost first. So I proposed such meta encoding here. If we have a much bigger string, gzip will be better, but all string we want to compress here are just classname/fieldname/packagename/namespace/path/modulename. We don't have enough repete pattern for gzip to work
Yup. Short range runs could be two wires, it was more cost effective given the poor performance of the earth return system. Much longer runs were a single conductor on the pole. At either end you'd have a gigantic metal plate sunk deep into the ground to act as your return path. It had to be deep enough to stay wet, or the operator would have to dump water (or other fluid) on it.

There were also repeaters in the transcontinental run, the signal was just way too weak. These were initially electromechanical devices that dip a needle into a pool of mercury.

Things were wild before we really invented electronics.
Probably that when somebody buys a home then they will do everything to protect their investment. New owners quickly change their tune from when they were socialist renters.
It gets worse when you factor in that the interest is taxed, whereas Owner's Equivalent Rent is not.
The problem is the government. Have you not realized that all of the absurdly priced industries also happen to have the most government intervention? The government needs to sit back and just do the basics like preventing collusion and monopolies (which they absolutely fail at) and get rid of regulations that prevent more housing being built.
When the transition from DM to Euro was done, a Döner costed 2€. And that was expensive, because pre € it was 3,50DM.

Nowadays I can't even eat it anymore, the meat, once colder is tough and hard to chew.
Some kebap stands offer minced meat and you know it's full of bones and other not very appetizing things.

My very 1st was a simple bread, like the ones you can buy in every Turkish shop, minced meat of good quality, lemon (which apparently is no longer a thing) and a very good spicy sauce, so spicy that my eyes would water, just like when you eat good mustard :).

The bread got better, but everything else got worse.
And now it's even more expensive than a meal in a restaurant at noon.
Maybe good ones do exist but not in my area.
And tbh I prefer Gyros anyway, but the only Greek restaurant in town prices it at 18€ a dish, which is ridiculous.
And the non-greek "cheap" ones are 8€.

The only places one can eat are either expensive German restaurants or Italian restaurants, which aren't as expensive.

Germans value their manual labor way too much. A Brötchen (small bread) costs 0,60€ (uses to be 0,25€). Cut it in half, add a thin slice of Wurst, 3€. Ridiculous.

And yes Scholz is to blame. Everyone knows the Americans destroyed Nordstream, exposed Germany to expensive US energy imports. And he did nothing. Yeah it was "the Ukrainians". Sure, they were profiting from Nordstream by stealing energy that transitioned through the pipeline. Why would they do it? Especially while the American fleet was in the area.

Germany is lead by a criminal US puppet. Criminal because of the CumEx and CumCum allegations, which won't get examined because he's cancelor. The woman examining them resigned a week or two ago.

The Döner Kebab is just an indicator.

I saw a live stream the other day, from Serbia. A full shopping cart and it all cost 20€ equivalent.
In Germany and the rest of the EU you would've paid 200€.

Medicare. There are not enough doctors and they're overworked. Health insurance is expensive and you need to pay on top, despite the monthly payment which costs about as much as an apartment, bit less.
My mom, 89, is in pain because of her hip. She needs to be operated.
She has to wait 7 months, because she's a 2nd class citizen when it comes to health insurance.

Germany didn't use to be like that 30 years ago. Effectively 32 years of CDU did that. Kohl and Merkel and in between the stab in the back by SPD and Greens, who made worker exploitation possible. Betrayal.

And the political system hasn't changed. Those in power can still do what they please without consequences. They can still promise the world and not deliver. They can still take money from "donors" without any consequences. More so if they're an EU politician.

How much is a kebab in France, Spain ... other EU countries? I'm really curious.
Here's the new iDevice. Same as the old iDevice, just with a ton of marketing and a 5% performance improvement. And you can do nothing with the added performance because it still runs a fully locked down OS. Yawn.
> I like the comparison between much older hardware with brand new to highlight how far we came.

That's ok, but why skip the previous iteration then? Isn't the M2 only two generations behind? It's not that much older. It's also a marketing blurb, not a reproducible benchmark. Why leave out comparisons with the previous iteration even when you're just hand-waving over your own data?
First I have heard of it in a consumer device. I suspect this is why the M4 is launching with this device. They are probably using the added efficiency to power the Tandem OLED without sacrificing performance / battery life compared to the previous gen.

I will be interested to see what this looks like in person and if it makes it to consumer televisions. I personally find OLED bright enough for indoor use, but a lot of people complain about the reduced brightness on OLED TVs and monitors.
If companies are people in the US after how many crimes does a company get a life sentence or death penalty?
If you replace your laptop every year or two and sell the old one online you can keep on the latest technology for only a slight premium.
I'm not sure how OLED and backlit LCD compare power-wise exactly, but OLED screens still need to put off a lot of light, they just do it directly instead of with a backlight.
Both Sony and Nintendo have expanded outside their traditional exclusive hardware. I don't think the parent is saying that doing hardware is useless, but rather that the writing is on the wall to some extent for pure console exclusivity.
> Does this make them bad at business?

No, and nobody said as much either.

It just means they get enough out of other sales (including an increase from hardware) that they have decided hardware is still worth it. Microsoft has decided otherwise. They’re both perfectly fine decisions.

> I've actually worked at a high enough level in the games industry to know about the non-public dynamics, and that includes working with some of the people involved in this story.

Then you should very well know how hardware has always been a loss leader intended to drive people to exclusives and first party services. It shouldn’t be a surprise that once a company finds just as successful ways of driving the same engagement, they no longer need hardware.
Tandem OLED: Stacked OLED displays
Still using my M1 Air and had no interest in updating to M3. Battery life has dropped a fair amount, but still like 8+ hours. That's going to be the trigger to get a new one. If only batteries lasted longer.
> RAM has been used as data cache to speed up data read/write performance until the actual SSD storage operation completes.

I'm pretty sure that's what all modern operating systems are doing.
I mean, copy/paste is a thing, I'm not suggesting you have to always type out every single character. Just know what's being imported.
I just spent 10 days in the town I grew up in north of Boston to take care of a family member. Was completely surprised that people are putting homes on the market in my old neighborhood for nearly $1 million. Rents are not even that far off from what you could get in Bushwick, Brooklyn and you would need to own a car. The restaurants were more expensive than my regular spots in Brooklyn, and just way way worse quality. It's not a bad place to live, but it's ridiculous that everything is this expensive everywhere.
In the page, seems you see a slight downward trend starting in 2004, 2005 is at 69%, 2015 is at 63.7%. The charts I see end in 2015, which maybe the rate could have increased.

But I wonder how this is calculated. Say if a company/person owns hundreds of homes, would the company be counted as owning just 1 home or multiple homes.

What is needed is a count of real people owning homes. So, if 1 person owns multiple homes, they are counted as 1 home owner with the total of all owned homes used to calculate the % value. That would give us a better comparison.
Yes, M3 chips are available with 36GB unified RAM when embedded in a MacBook, although 18GB and below are the norm for most models.

And even though the Apple press release does not even mention memory capacity, I can guarantee you that it will be even less than that on an iPad (simply because RAM is very battery-hungry and most consumers won't care).

So, therefore my remark: it will be interesting to see how this chipset lands in MacBooks.
A home is usually the single largest investment people will ever make in their life. Why wouldn't they want returns on it?
I wouldn't really agree with this take. There's plenty of companies making quirky products, e.g. look at the ASUS Zenbook Duo, but they don't sell as widely and hence don't get as much media coverage.
Many concert sound technicians use iPads as remote monitors for their sound rigs.
Unlike the PC industry, Apple is/was able to move their entire ecosystem to a completely different architecture, essentially one developed exactly for low power use. Windows on ARM efforts will for the foreseeable future be plagued by application support and driver support. It's a great shame, as Intel hardware is no longer competitive for mobile devices.
Apple claimed M3 was 1.35 the speed of the M2. So the M3 vs M4 comparison isn't that impressive. Certainly not bad by any means, just pointing out why it is compared to the M2 here.
America's most innovative tech company introduces... Widget 7.0
> Additionally your housing costs are fixed

even if this is true (boilers / repairs / maintenance costs rise over time), your income is probably not. I've toured a lot of apartments which are unaffordable for its current tenants, who can't sell at a lower price either because it would put them "under water", leading to otherwise bustling neighborhoods looking like ghost towns when the shops close for the day (the current owners live in a much cheaper area and only come in for showings)
They refresh it like every 3 years
Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. uses electricity
Rails is absolutely fantastic for projects below 10,000 lines with 1 or 2 contributors, especially if you want a classic forms-based UI. And you can get a huge amount done under those constraints in Rails.

But as of couple of years ago, Rails came with a number of drawbacks:

1. There was no really viable system of static typing that a significant number of people were enthusiastic about. See https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/105sdax/whats_the_lat... for a discussion.

2. The lack of static typing meant far less IDE support. Fewer documentation tooltips, less autocompletion, etc.

3. I used to do a lot of Rails consulting. And whenever I had to drop into a codebase with more than 50,000 lines or 5 active developers, it was generally a painful slog. Too many weird Rails plugins that stopped being maintained, too much magic, too many nasty surprises while refactoring.

Basically, smaller Rails projects were an absolute delight. Larger Rails projects, though, tended to feel more like a swamp. Tools like https://activeadmin.info/ could tip the balance where applicable.

I still think that small Rails projects are fantastic, and I don't think anything since has remotely matched Rails' productivity within that niche. There's just too much mature tooling, and much of it works together seamlessly. But not too many projects want classic multi-page apps right now, and small projects often grow up to be big projects.
> even when plugged in together.

Do you mean via USB ? Because that works flawlessly for me, even with the older lightning-port iPad version. Over wifi is almost always laggy though.
He deleted his account a long time ago. If anything, it’s a positive; BlueSky continues to grow.
This surprises me. I thought the big power downside of LCD displays is that they use filtering to turn unwanted color channels into waste heat.

Knowing nothing else about the technology, I assumed that would make OLED displays more efficient.
OpenDevin sets new benchmark record for AI-generated code
> All in all, Apple created a gap and pro users looked at more fitting devices when they didn't want to bend over backwards to use an iPad.

Honestly, Apple kind of dropped the "pro" crowd some time ago topping out with the trash can MacPro. That thing was such a joke. It took years for them to admit it, which they ultimately did, shockingly. After that, they then went full Apple again in the revised MacPro that still missed the mark of what people actually wanted. It wasn't until the Apple Silicon where Apple's vision could really shine with a near silent "pro" box sitting on a desk. The modern "creator" crowd doesn't have data rooms where big noisy boxes live, so they finally found their audience so their refusal to make a data center friendly box pays off for them. Finally.

Prosumers (where I equate "creators") cheered triumphantly /s
The longtime CEO/President of Starbucks recently invested in a Cold Brew startup called Cumulus which makes instead coldbrew via a $600 countertop machine.

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/16/howard-schultz-part-o...
> There are tons of types of “Pros”.

Regardless of our personal professional affinities the only reason iPadOS stays locked down is that it's simply more profitable to sell a customer two devices instead of just one. I would love to have an iPad Pro as my only home computer, but it's just not doable due to its OS limitations. The artistic angle is just Apple's way to make the platform believable.

Why would an artist care if I can also compile code on an iPad?

I can only assume that macOS must be offensive to some due to its "openness". The truth is that macOS allows me to be both an artist and a developer, and I don't have a single doubt that Apple could pull off an interface that allows a similar experience on iPadOS. It's just that doing so will lose them money.